“What the US calls ‘criminal gangs’ are in reality low-income-neighborhoods demanding social change”
By Fernando Esteche With this interview we try to take a look at Haiti, the first independent black republic in the world, which is immersed in a deep political and social crisis. The Caribbean nation, recurrently hit by natural disasters and suffering from political storms caused by the colonization of its political class, faces political turbulence as one of its ...
By Oscar Rotundo * The political history of Haiti is the history of the challenges of a people that placed its self-determination over the interests of the European empires. Since then, this people have constantly struggled to maintain that self-determination. The Haitian revolution was not carried out by sectors of the literate petty bourgeoisie. Slaves who lived in conditions of ...
Besieged by popular pressure, in the midst of an internal security crisis, the de facto president of Haiti suspended the constitutional referendum. A massive popular insurgency is growing and the new international intervention is looming. Jovenel Moïse is currently the de facto president of Haiti. On February 7, the five-year term of government stipulated by the Constitution expired. Moïse remained ...